Sorry. Used to participate on a religious debate board years ago and 'xian' was the shorthand we used and I'm just used to it. X indicates the Greek letter 'Chi'. Chi is short for the Greek Χριστός, meaning Christ. It's a shorthand that's actually been in use for thousands of years.
I had to look it up as well but it makes sense. Just like Xmas
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Sorry. Used to participate on a religious debate board years ago and 'xian' was the shorthand we used and I'm just used to it. X indicates the Greek letter 'Chi'. Chi is short for the Greek Χριστός, meaning Christ. It's a shorthand that's actually been in use for thousands of years.
Interesting...so X=Christ is shorthand that has been used for thousands of years, yet some of the people who presumably should know this go batpoop crazy when people say "Xmas"?
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Interesting...so X=Christ is shorthand that has been used for thousands of years, yet some of the people who presumably should know this go batpoop crazy when people say "Xmas"?
Manufactured outrage is fun, isn't it?
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They sure do catch my eye, but that's my issue not theirs.
As a dad with a daughter, I would like my daughter not to dress provocatively, especially when she hits her teens, because I know how guys are, but that a battle I will likely lose more than I win. That's not so much because of the modesty thing, as it is that I think the over sexualization of our youth is a big issue.
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They sure do catch my eye, but that's my issue not theirs.
As a dad with a daughter, I would like my daughter not to dress provocatively, especially when she hits her teens, because I know how guys are, but that a battle I will likely lose more than I win. That's not so much because of the modesty thing, as it is that I think the over sexualization of our youth is a big issue.
Such an overused dramatic cliche. Today's youth in the western world are far better off than any other time in history. You only have to go back just over a hundred years to find girls being thought of as sexual objects as soon as they hit puberty (or even sooner)
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A general great shift in social and legal attitudes toward issues of sex took place in the modern era and beliefs on the appropriate age below which girls should not be permitted to engage in sexual activity drifted toward adulthood. While ages from 10 to 13 were typically regarded as acceptable ages for sexual consent in Western countries during the mid-19th century,[1] by the end of the 19th century changing attitudes towards sexuality and childhood resulted in the raising of the age of consent.[4]
Several articles written by investigative journalist William Thomas Stead in the late 19th century on the issue of child prostitution in London led to public outrage and ultimately to the raising of the age of consent to 16.
The English common law had traditionally set the age of consent within the range of 10 to 12, but in 1875 the age was raised to 13. After intense sensational media revelations about the scourge of under-age prostitution in London in the 1880s caused respectable middle-class outrage, the age of consent was raised to 16 in 1885. Early feminists of the Social Purity movement such as Josephine Butler and others, instrumental in securing the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, began to turn towards the problem of child prostitution by the end of the 1870s.
Such an overused dramatic cliche. Today's youth in the western world are far better off than any other time in history. You only have to go back just over a hundred years to find girls being thought of as sexual objects as soon as they hit puberty (or even sooner)
We should base what we think only compared to what was normal 100 years ago?
If I suggested that we should base what we think about sex on what they thought 50 years ago, I would be probably laughed off the message board. What's the logic that 100 year old sexual ideals are a standard we should be reaching for?
Kids shouldn't be going to school dressing like they are heading to the bar to get laid.
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Xians, Xmas. Does this mean that if the 'x' is based on the Greek 'chi', then Greek Orthodox and Chinese mysticism share the same cosmic mailbox? I love that the meaning of Christian shorthand has highjacked a thread about lady bums somehow.
And GlenX made me laugh.
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